Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 16:11:27 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> Cc: dan@langille.org, jim@freebsd.org, blackend@freebsd.org, cjuniet@entreview.com, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <3D4EE9FF.4030909@centtech.com> References: <200208052102.OAA11338@eskimo.com>
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Personally, I think it's getting too complicated. It doesn't need to be a nest of comments with a forum and all that. I think the KISS method applies here, and it should be as simple as port blurbs written about the port, and no comments on the blurb. If someone wants to add to that, they should write a blurb. There can be multiple blurbs for a port, I think that's a good thing. But I don't think turning it into a portdot is a good idea.. Eric Ross Lippert wrote: > Freshports has definitely been a value-add that has proven its > longevity. > > >>FWIW: users have talked about commenting on the ports. I think >>they'd take to it like wild fire. >> > So with comments, we're talking about threaded comments of some sort > on the port? > > There is a funny thing about threaded lists and articles. An article > gets written. People respond. A few responses after an article can > add a lot of value to the article. A thousand responses after an > article can be bewildering. But, at that point, you probably have > enough info in the comments to condense them in version 2 of the article > (and perhaps make new articles) and the process starts again. This > is a pretty natural way to do things. > > I think it requires two kinds of responses. The first is the set of > comments, which are unstructured, moderated, but not editted. The > next is the article, which condenses the comments, which is moderated, > editted, with a consistent structure. > > Perhaps, on FreshPorts, there could be comments with a TTL and > articles with a bigger TTL. Things in comment space are quickly > moderated for spam or other evil and posted. Things in article space > are reviewed for tags, language, and maybe even accuracy before being > placed, at which point the corresponding author(s) on the article are > obligated to receive all subsequent comments made (and we trust they do > not /dev/null them). > > I think that generally the guidelines for the articles should be similar > to what we've been discussing. I'd hate to see a "Why I hate windowmaker" > as an article. > > Maybe my previous article on time-tables and whatnot isn't necessary > if Freshports is the obvious way to go. Maybe, we could still do the > prototype and possibly use the resulting articles as seeds for the > comment-->article-->comment cycle? > > > -r > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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